Eagle Plains Announces Stornoway Participation in Orchid Property Agreement

Cranbrook, British Columbia (FSCwire) - Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (EPL:TSX-V) is pleased to announce that Stornoway Diamonds Corp (T.SWY) has exercised its right to participate in the Orchid option agreement between Eagle Plains and North Arrow Minerals Inc. (NAR:TSV-V). North Arrow and Stornoway will finance exploration according to their respective earn in terms under a pre-existing joint-venture agreement. As announced on September 25, 2014, North Arrow and Stornoway can earn a 70-per-cent undivided interest in the diamond rights on Eagle Plains' 100-per-cent-owned Orchid property (the “Property”), located in east-central Saskatchewan, approximately 140 km east of LaRonge and 15 km east of North Arrow’s Pikoo diamond discovery.  See map here: http://www.eagleplains.com/projects/sask/images/Orchid_North_Arrow_NR_Map.pdf  by funding exploration and evaluation of the Property to a discovery within a three year period. Eagle Plains will maintain a 100% interest in any non-diamondiferous materials on the property, and will continue to hold 100% interest in the titles themselves. 

2014 work carried out by North Arrow included the collection of three till samples on the Orchid property and an additional 7 till samples on properties immediately adjacent to the Orchid. The samples are being processed at Microlithics Laboratories Inc. of Thunder Bay, Ontario for kimberlite mineral indicators.

Management cautions mineralization present on proximal properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Orchid Property.

The Orchid property was acquired by Eagle Plains through the Saskatchewan MARS on-line tenure system after it was identified as covering a series of significant gold occurrences related to the regional scale Tabbernor fault complex. The Orchid claims include seven documented SMDI gold and base-metal mineral occurrences associated with highly deformed and metamorphosed mafic volcanics and tonalitic intrusions within the 200 to 1500 m wide Tabbernor Strain Zone. The gold mineralization is found in pyritic quartz veins and is typically associated with copper, lead and zinc.

The Orchid has seen extensive historical work including geological mapping, prospecting, soil sampling, trenching and ground-based geophysics with the last significant work programs reported in 1995. The Property has seen only a single drill hole which was completed in the Tim’s Au Zone area and returned 1.3 g/t Au over two separate 0.5 meter intervals. Results from historical work on the Orchid mineral occurrences include:

SMDI 2646 Orchid Zone

SMDI 2645 Tim’s Au / South Lariviere  

Many of the other gold occurrences on the Property returned values in excess of 1 g/t Au in both rock and soil samples, with historical records indicating the presence of visible gold in some of the panned soil samples.

Management cautions it has neither verified nor confirmed these results, which are considered to be historical in nature. All of the historical information referenced in this News Release was researched using the Saskatchewan Geological Atlas and management has no reason to believe that the information is not accurate.

The Orchid project is one of 24 recently acquired by Eagle Plains through the Saskatchewan MARS on-line tenure acquisition system.  See map here:

http://www.eagleplains.com/projects/sask/images/Diamond_Map_Truscott_for_nr_14.10.23.pdf

About Eagle Plains Resources

Based in Cranbrook, B.C., Eagle Plains continues to conduct research, acquire and explore mineral projects throughout western Canada. Since 1992, EPL has been acquiring and developing early-stage projects utilizing an in-house team of geologists, technicians and specialists. Considered a prolific project generator with over 50 properties, EPL invites joint-venture participation to expedite development, reduce risk and enhance exposure to discovery.

Expenditures from 2011-2013 on Eagle Plains-related projects were approximately $15M, which was funded by Eagle Plains and for the most part, by third-party partners. This exploration work resulted in approximately 15,000m of diamond-drilling and extensive ground-based exploration work facilitating the advancement of more than 23 projects at various stages of development.

Technical aspects of this news release have been reviewed and approved by C.C. (Chuck) Downie, P.Geo.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

“Tim J. Termuende”
President and CEO

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